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AAJ Statement on Judicial Independence

Contact:

Sarah Jones

Email:

sarah.jones@justice.org

Phone:

(202) 944-2853

Washington, DC —The following is a statement from American Association for Justice President Larry Tawwater:

“As an association of advocates for Americans who rely on the civil justice system to ensure their rights under the law are protected and enforced, the American Association for Justice condemns any threat to a fair and impartial judiciary. Political attacks on individual judges, including those based on a judge’s ethnicity or religious background, jeopardize the fair administration of justice and threaten to undermine the Rule of Law.”

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